Hey everyone! Leading up to round 2 of the Presidential Election we wanted to give each of the second-round candidates another chance to speak their mind and tell you more about themselves. Over the next 24 hours we will be posting thoughts from each candidate for you to better understand what they expect to accomplish as the next President of empowr.

Please use the comments below to ask questions and leave your feedback.

When I first announced that I am a candidate to become your president, I wanted you to be very clear that I will focus on getting you more coins through productive activity, helping your coins to increase in value, and reducing the number of days you are required to wait before you can transfer your coins out.

It is also important to me that you know that I have some program ideas to make program objectives a reality. I shared my video on Pre-Sold Listings to help you generate more successful “Item Received” sales and get you paid, so that you would have an idea of the kind of programs I will champion as your President.

I think all active empowr citizens realize that the biggest challenge we face right now is getting our coins to "Catch Fire." This is the event that will make it possible to reduce and, at some point, eliminate the maturation period.

I know we can do this quickly if enough of us share the potential of our coins to increase in value between now and the end of the year. This is the reason that I created a video that you can use to share the opportunity to buy EMPR coins with your friends, family, co-workers, and connections via email or through social media posts on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp etc.

You can add your “Coin Purchase URL” as a link that your friends can use immediately. When you tell them that 100 coins they purchase now are projected to be worth $1000 at the end of the year, some of your contacts will contact you for more details. We already have blog posts that explain How to Create a Coin eWallet.

I know that some of you will not feel comfortable with inviting friends to join empowr until you can say you have transferred out some of your coins. Sharing this video will help us to reduce maturation times and prepare your friends to join our community.

Your friends will not need to create an empowr account to enjoy the benefits of the increasing value of our coins. Once they see the increase in the value of the coins they have purchased, they may be open to learning how they can receive additional coins by sharing this opportunity to purchase coins with others.

My intention is that this video helps you to get a few friends to buy coins this week. When that happens, you will have Founders Coins added to your wallet, your friends will thank you for sharing empowr with them, and I will have begun the work of helping citizens to earn more, helping the value of our coins to increase, and ignited a spark so our coins can catch fire and we can reduce maturation.

I understand that the President of empowr does not have a magic wand that she can wave and force our coin to catch fire. But if enough of us want reduced coin maturation badly enough to take a few steps, we can combine our sparks and create an inferno of global interest and demand for our coins!

This election will narrow the candidate field from five to two. I will be honored and grateful to have your vote. Should I receive sufficient votes to be one of the final two candidates, I will know that there are enough empowr citizens who want to accumulate as many coins as possible, create the highest value for our coins, and have them mature as quickly as possible, and are willing to take action.

I was born on the beautiful Island of Barbados, a small island in the Caribbean.

Now you know why I love beautiful Beaches and Sky photos :-)

I live in the United States with my 10 year old son, Peter. You have also heard his beautiful voice singing for the Lord during church service. There was a video of Peter singing a solo and both of us singing a duet on my profile page. We both love to sing :-)

Both of my parents are retired educators, and have influenced my desired to be educated and to succeed in whatever I do in an ethical manner. Integrity and Independence are Key. I have worked for top companies in the Investment, Banking and Insurance Industries in the US. My mother is devout Christian, and my father is a retired College President and Author. You see his books on my profile page.

My goal for empowr is for empowr to become the best company it can be.

With great Leaders who are familiar with how markets work, willing to invest the time needed to stay up-to-date with what is happening in the industry and company, have leadership experience working with teams, consulting and sales experience, and possess some technical knowledge, eCommerce, and Social Media Skills to be able to engage with, and give feedback, to all departments in empowr, Together We Can Do This!

Catherine, you’re professionalism and dedication to this platform is evident in your latest post and I am quite certain that I put my money behind the right horse. The Cream Rises To The Top. Catherine will make empowr Great! Vote CATHERINE SANDIFORD in the second round beginning August 17, 2018

Wonderful and impressive video with feasible plans. Thank you Pres. Brian. Looking forward to the second round vote and so excited for the result. Good luck Catherine and wishing you all the best! You deserve to be an empowr President! Good luck to all amazing candidates.

You are asking us blindly to invite new people to empowr to get the coin to catch fire - lets get the coin to catch on fire first - then we will invite everyone to join empowr - There is one great way to set the empowr coin on fire - (release our funds) let us take money out of empowr! Here are 3 easy steps to set the empowr coin on FIRE: #1) give us 100% of our mission wheel earnings every month. #2) give us 50% of our marketplace sales every month. #3) give us a percentage of our founder coins.Do this and the empowr coin will go to the moon!!!

Up until now, we did not have a tool that we can use to introduce our coin to the outside world. Now we do, and my video speaks for each person sharing it. It is not an election promotion.

We are all aware of what needs to fixed. Let's focus on solutions.
We have seen what happens when there are more coin sellers in the marketplace than buyers. If there is not an equal amount of buying and selling taking place on the coin exchange, the price of the coin will continue to fall, and the coins that you are asking to be released will be worth nothing. The only solution is for all of us is to buy coins on the Exchange and hold them, now that the price is low again. The Buy one, Get one Free promotion will not last forever, and it is only available if the coins are bought on the empowr platform. If your invitees buy on the Coin Exchange, they will not receive the Free Coin, so start sharing your Coin URL so that others can benefit from this temporary price opportunity.

We all know what will make the coin catch fire, and there is more than one way to get there, but there is a Gap between our current need to transfer out and that "catch fire" point when we will not need to worry about available Buyers on the coin exchange to buy the coins we need to sell. We should ALL have some Ether in our Wallets that we can buy 2 to 5 EMPR coins with and Hold them until the price goes up again. Investors follow Capital Gains, and we all want to be a part of that.

To answer your 3 points:
1) The Mission Wheel is where you convert pre-coins to coins. Those pre-coins are earned from posting and sharing, and therefore will be maturing as they currently are until the maturation require is permanently removed.
2) This is very important to the success of the Citizens, Marketplace Economy, and The Coin. You are correct!
3) We are already getting a percentage of the Founders coins. Give empowr a chance to make the "Transfer Out" button active.

A great blog Catherine. Some very good and clear ideas of coin maturation as well as distribution. A lot of issues in the marketplace and sunbscriptions to the Mission Roles (double charging!) need resolving too. However, all that for a different platform. I wish you well.

Wonderfully done Catherine and of course to all of the candidates. As the empowr "world" we can sure see that being the President of the world with many "countries" will be a wonderful challenge for whomever wins this election. We can be sure now that truly the best 5 Candidates are presenting their platforms to us now. The beat goes on, and my loyalty is prime in my vote but for total qualifications, it seems fairly clear who the best choice will be. Go empowr!!!!!

awesome thank you Brian - the election is hotting up. Thank you Catherine , very good presentation , particularly good for me to know more about your background - buying coins is cool - thank you for the video, well put together. Getting income to the sellers efficiently is number 1 priority. Very good luck.

Catherine, there's no one better qualified than you to take empowr to the next level and we wish you all the best as YOU'RE THE BEST candidate to win the Presidency and with these FANTASTIC IDEAS presented to us here, we are solidly behind you to help you MAKE EMPOWR GREATER, AS WE ARE ALREADY GREAT!!!

And, Catherine: what will you do to the repetition of the same profile pages on and on when we click on the forward arrow??? I closed loop with a citizen and then another; and, I am shown the same profiled pages up to four (4) times before a fresh profile page is presented to me. We get to "waste" so much internet data when trapped in this endless loop.

What I believe the next president should concentrate his/her efforts on is to improve the support team reactivity (Not talking about SC's). Currently it's quasi inexistent. We need a back office that operates like clockwork before working on new improvement of the marketplace.A strong support combined with a streamlined marketplace will greatly help the value of the EMPR coin.Good luck in your campaign Catherine, go for it.

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